whitlow@inmos.com (Andy Whitlow) (01/12/91)
Jim, You might be interested in this info for rec.arts.startrek.info. I was watching the BBC 9 O'clock news last night and they did a piece on the privatisation of the two national electricity generating companies, National Power and Powergen, by the British Government. The advertising campaign is to be based on ST and it looked as though William Shatner and James Doohan at least were appearing. The news item only showed a few seconds of the TV commercial but it looked as though they were using shots from the films plus some original material shot specially for the commercial. The original stuff looked pretty well done (ie. expensive). The idea behind this particular commercial was that the Enterprise was in trouble and Scotty was shouting for more power. Suddenly a grey suited fellow jumps from out of shot and offers Scotty shares in one of the electricity companies (something like that anyway). The thing that really hurt was that the reporter stated that the government was using a STAR WARS theme to sell the shares. Some cockup considering that the BBC is the company which carries ST anyway. Cheers, Andy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Andy Whitlow, Software Group, INMOS Ltd. 1000 Aztec West, Almondsbury, Bristol, UK. UK: whitlow@inmos.co.uk US: whitlow@inmos.com -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Edited by Jim "The Big Dweeb" Griffith - the official scapegoat for r.a.s.i. Email submissions to trek-info@dweeb.fx.com, and questions to trek-info-request@dweeb.fx.com